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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown became the longest backing lapse successful past implicit the weekend, but the standoff could instrumentality respective much months to afloat resolve.
With President Donald Trump giving Republicans a June 1 deadline to fund the full department, blasted is flying betwixt some parties portion apical Republicans contiguous a unified beforehand aft respective days of infighting.
Meanwhile, tens of thousands of DHS employees are struggling to wage their bills. American travelers, too, are enduring longer-than-usual hold times astatine large airports.
As the shutdown continues to resistance on, present is simply a glimpse astatine the biggest winners and losers of the backing lapse truthful far.
HOUSE CONSERVATIVES RAGE AGAINST SENATE DHS SHUTDOWN DEAL
Though Republicans were mostly unified during the autumn 2025 shutdown, interior divisions person erupted successful the existent backing fight.
House GOP enactment fiercely rejected a bipartisan Senate woody connected Friday that sought to money astir of DHS portion punting wealth for ICE and CBP to a aboriginal backing vehicle. GOP lawmakers successful the House past approved a rival proposal temporarily backing the full department, adjacent arsenic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., labeled it "dead connected arrival" successful the precocious chamber.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., told GOP colleagues implicit the play that helium would not bring lawmakers backmost to Washington for a "show vote" that is destined to fail.
Johnson, however, continued to importune his conference’s connection was the champion solution to extremity the stalemate.
"The Senate has to bash their occupation and assistance america connected this dense lift," the talker said connected "Fox & Friends" Tuesday, adding that the Senate failing to marque definite ICE and CBP are funded was an "outrageous" move.
Trump appeared to interruption the impasse erstwhile helium called connected Republicans connected Wednesday to money migration enforcement and borderline information successful a forthcoming fund reconciliation bundle — a determination aligned with Senate Republicans’ preferred attack to extremity the shutdown.
Johnson and Thune issued a associated connection soon after, endorsing Trump's June 1 deadline successful a notable show of unity.
The cross-chamber tensions are apt to remain, however, with immoderate House conservatives, specified arsenic Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., calling for Thune’s ouster from Senate leadership.
LEAVITT CALLS ON CONGRESS TO END EASTER RECESS TO WORK ON DHS SHUTDOWN
Top Democrats plunged the state into a partial government shutdown successful mid-February to request reforms to migration enforcement. The propulsion came successful the aftermath of the sidesplitting of 2 Americans by national migration agents during the Trump administration’s enforcement surge successful Minneapolis.
But Democrats are not apt to person immoderate of their proposals met aft consistently rebuffing Republicans’ attempts to find consensus.
"The Dems wanted reforms. We tried to enactment with them connected reforms. They ended up getting nary reforms," Thune said.
The proposals included prohibiting ICE agents from wearing masks, requiring judicial warrants erstwhile entering backstage homes, and shielding delicate locations specified arsenic churches and schools from enforcement targets.
The Senate’s since-rejected woody to money astir of DHS, minus migration enforcement, included nary of Democrats’ demands. But Schumer has inactive claimed triumph by pointing to Senate Republicans agreeing to a backing woody that did not money Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and astir of the Border Patrol.
"Throughout it all, Senate Democrats stood agreed — nary wavering, nary backing down," Schumer said. "We held the line."
SEE IT: LAWMAKERS CAUGHT ON VACATION AMID RECORD-BREAKING SHUTDOWN WHILE DHS WORKERS GO UNPAID
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents, who marque an mean of $47,000 a year, were forced to study to enactment without wage for six weeks earlier President Donald Trump took enforcement action Friday to statesman the process of compensating them.
The withheld paychecks forced immoderate agents to slumber successful cars to prevention connected gas, sell humor and plasma for money, and instrumentality connected 2nd and 3rd jobs to marque ends meet.
More than 500 TSA agents person discontinue during the backing lapse, according to DHS.
TSA officials person indicated that staffing issues volition apt stay adjacent aft the shutdown ends. The workforce was besides subjected to a lengthy shutdown successful autumn 2025, during which agents worked for astir a period and a fractional without pay.
Assaults connected agents person besides accrued by 500% since the shutdown began, Acting TSA Administrator Ha Nguyen McNeill testified astatine a legislature proceeding past week.
Additionally, tens of thousands of Americans employed by the U.S. Coast Guard, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and enactment unit moving for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) person continued to enactment without wage oregon person been furloughed.
JOHNSON TURNS UP HEAT ON SCHUMER AS DHS SHUTDOWN DRAGS ON, AIRPORT DELAYS MOUNT
Travel impacts from the months-long DHS shutdown deed a fever transportation past week, with immoderate large airports advising passengers to get 3 to 4 hours anterior to their departure.
Those travel disruptions — caused chiefly by a shortage of TSA workers — person eased aft agents began receiving 2 afloat retroactive paychecks.
At Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, which has seen immoderate of the longest information screening lines successful the country, astir 40% of TSA agents called retired Sunday, according to DHS.
However, the fig of TSA agents calling retired astatine the question hub fell by astir fractional Monday, with the airdrome experiencing conscionable implicit a 20% lack complaint among personnel.
"Since President Trump issued an bid to wage TSA officers connected March 28, TSA serviceman call-outs person dropped by astir 30%," Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis told Fox News Digital connected Tuesday. "We are grateful to President Trump for ensuring our hardworking TSA officers are paid arsenic they proceed safeguarding our airports during the longest authorities shutdown successful history."
It is not wide whether the president’s enforcement bid volition screen aboriginal TSA paychecks if the backing lapse drags on.
SENATORS DEFEND TWO-WEEK RECESS AS RECORD-BREAKING GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN DRAGS ON
Even arsenic Democrats proceed to garbage backing for ICE, the partial authorities shutdown is reshaping however immoderate Americans presumption the embattled agency.
Passengers astatine Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport told Fox News Digital they appreciated ICE agents assisting TSA officers with managing agelong information lines. Trump deployed ICE agents to much than a twelve airports successful March to assistance alleviate TSA staffing shortages.
Their beingness has allowed TSA unit to absorption connected information screenings, portion ICE agents nonstop travelers done agelong lines and assistance acceptable up caller lanes.
"I deliberation it has been precise helpful. They person been helping radical spell to the close places and assistance them out," 1 traveler named Pinal told Fox News Digital.
Another traveler named April said she was grateful for the ICE agents’ presence. "They gave america water, and they said bully greeting erstwhile we walked in. I'm definite they're conscionable arsenic miserable down here," she said.
"They've been great, precise kind, precise helpful. They've got water," different traveler named Maria said with a large smile.
Long TSA lines astatine large airports person created an unequivocal victor during the shutdown. Clear Secure, the institution that operates the ID-verification strategy allowing immoderate travelers to usage a accelerated lane done airdrome security, has seen a surge successful sign-ups since the shutdown began successful mid-February.
At slightest 319,000 travelers downloaded the Clear app successful March to steer astir TSA checkpoints, Fast Company reported past week.
However, the service, costing $209 annually, has not been disposable astatine immoderate airports wherever it typically operates during the DHS backing lapse.
Clear has called for an extremity to the shutdown and has contributed astir $200,000 successful state cards and market cards to TSA agents, a institution spokesperson told The Wall Street Journal.
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